A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness
Let’s look at how it all began
Because nobody knows how it’s gonna end
So let’s strive to do the best we can
In this crazy, mixed-up world we live in
God is my witness and my best friend
In this crazy, mixed-up world we live in
I gotta breathe and be grateful for every breath
Because the only thing promised in life is death
We have to struggle to survive,
I Had a Dream
To make it come true,
When I wake up,
To feel good
It was a matter of time
When I made her be mine
To live and give all her love to me,
To make me happy for the day
To stop and say
That I wanted to lover her in my dream
But now I’m here
To have you near
So you could hear me
To say to you
That I really love you,
It’s poetic…
In Texas, we’re trapped in pits with small widdows.
Inside these cells, we’re funding our own imprisonment;
the chains are encrypted inside the chips and soup sales.
We’re inside of an identity crisis believing our souls out of favors,
So we accept the chains;
believing a greater change will come save us…
Can you dig that?!?!
I guess that Willie Lynch Syndrome dies hard in some places.
(In memory of Luis Temaj Tomas)
I
On Tuesday, October 12, 2021
TV news announced
That a homeless man
Had died from his burns
He had been sleeping
In his sleeping bag
The previous Friday
When someone set his
Sleeping bag on fire
At 25th street and South Van Ness
In the Mission neighborhood
In San Francisco’s Latinx neighborhood
He was Latinx.
The manner in which the hours of freedom..
are spent determines, no less than labor or war, the moral worth of a nation.”
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on her tuffet
Smoking a bowl in the dark
Along came a ranger,
Took her weed and detained her
Valentine Love
By Lawrence Hollins
Love is: Sharing and caring, giving and forgiving
Love is: Loving and being loved, walking hand in hand, talking heart to heart
Love is: Seeing through each others eyes, laughing together, weeping together, praying together, moreso staying together
Love is: your best friend, your king or queen, your dream, your everything…
Love is God: and that’s what you are,
